Exactly how metallurgy began remains something of a mystery, with some scholars believing that the practice took off at the same time as pottery ... identified as an ancient street.

They are massive production sites that, through their scale, illustrate the intensification of iron production during the second millennium AD, at a time when Western ... Criterion (iii): The ancient ...

Previous research at Timna has uncovered cloth scraps dated from 1,000 BCE, the time of King David ... have been used to discover sites of ancient metallurgy — most recently in China.

“For the first time in more than 100 years of scholarship ... analysis could help researchers decipher other texts about ancient metallurgy from different cultures and regions in the future ...